Category Archives: London Film Festival 2011
March 15, 2012 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
by Indy Datta Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film was the joint winner – along with the Dardennes’ The Kid With a Bike – of the Grand Prix at last year’s Cannes film festival, and has since been widely acclaimed as his masterpiece. At the very least it is his most thematically expansive and [...]
Tags: Grand Prix, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Turkish film
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November 1, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – The Italian Job
Concetta Sidoti rounds up our LFF11 coverage with a special report on the Italian films that played at the festival For a couple of years, the most interesting Italian films in the London film festival have been about outsiders moving in – often ex-communitari (non-EU migrants) and clandestini (illegal migrants) – and the uneasy welcome [...]
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October 31, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – the Afterparty
Indy Datta And so it’s over for another year. I think I’ve banged on myself quite enough over the last couple of weeks, so I want to largely hand this wrapup piece over to our other contributors, and also to some regular MostlyFilm Contributors who weren’t able to chip in during our daily reports. There [...]
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October 28, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 16
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011) Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea is a quiet, delicate end to an odd London Film Festival. Based on a play by Terence Rattigan, it’s a period-set drama of doomed romance, which will evoke memories of Neil Jordan’s End of the Affair and Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven [...]
Tags: Junkhearts, Las Acacias, The Deep Blue Sea, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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October 27, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 15
Target (Alexander Zeldovich, 2011) Have you ever been cornered at a family gathering by an 8 year old boy, high on Mr Kipling, Coca-Cola and Ben 10, who wants to tell you a great science fiction story he’s just made up? Have you struggled to stop your eyes from glazing over while he introduces a [...]
Tags: Target, The House, This Must Be The Place
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October 26, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 14
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2011) Sunshine! Beethoven! Cécile de France!
Tags: Anonymous, Into the Abyss, The Jewel, The Kid With a Bike
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October 25, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 13
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 2011) Sandra Hebron’s last choice as LFF surprise film proved hilariously divisive. As the cast, shot in gauzy cheap-looking HD video, deadpanned the first lines of Stillman’s arch, absurdist dialogue over Mark Suozzo and Adam Schlesinger’s preposterously kitsch underscore, I could feel the hostility in the room boiling over almost [...]
Tags: A Dangerous Method, Damsels in Distress, Junkhearts, Martha Marcy May Marlene
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October 24, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Days 10-12
Wild Bill (Dexter Fletcher, 2011) A 35-year on-screen veteran of film and TV, Dexter Fletcher makes his writing and directing debut with a warm, funny and tightly-plotted East End drama that adeptly mixes crime and family plot strands. Charlie Creed-Miles plays the Bill of the title (“More like Mild Bill,” as one wag obligatorily but [...]
Tags: Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below, Miss Bala, Take Shelter, Wild Bill, Without, Wuthering Heights
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October 21, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 9
Lotus Eaters (Alexandra McGuinness, 2010) An object lesson, in the perils of writing what you know, if what you know is partying with the young, rich, beautiful and boring, Lotus Eaters cares less about its story (apparently beefed up from McGuinness’s almost plotless first draft by co-credited Brendan Grant) and more about hanging out with [...]
Tags: Dreileben, Lotus Eaters, Sleeping Sickness, The Ides of March
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October 20, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 8
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011) I adored Joachim Trier’s last film Reprise, a brilliant, understated drama about an academic rivalry between a pair of close friends in Oslo. His follow-up, Oslo, August 31st, is an equally impressive effort, again about some of the difficulties of educated, middle-class living. Like Reprise, Trier’s new film stars [...]
Tags: Carnage, Ernesto, Headhunters, Oedipus, Oslo August 31st, Tchaikovsky: an Elegy, The Last Belle, The Monster of Nix
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